The Fuchsia Wonders

The Fuchsia Wonders is a form of music used during marches and military engagements originating in The Passionate Scourge. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. A chanter recites The Page of Sisters. The melody has long phrases throughout the form. Only one pitch is ever played at a time. It is performed using the sasne scale and in the strog rhythm. Throughout, when possible, performers are to locally improvise. From beginning to end, when improvising, artists should often include a falling-rising melody pattern with flattened fifth degree on the rise as well as mordents, rapid runs, arpeggios and staccato and often include a falling melody pattern with flattened fifth degree as well as glides.

• The chanter always does the main melody and should feel playful.
• The Fuchsia Wonders has the following structure: a passage and a coda.
• The simple passage is at a hurried pace, and it is to be soft. The chanter's voice stays in the middle register.
• The coda is at a free tempo, and it is to become louder and louder. The chanter's voice covers its entire range.
• Scales are conceived of as two chords built using a division of the perfect fourth interval into eight notes. The tonic note is fixed only at the time of performance.
• As always, the sasne heptatonic scale is thought of as two disjoint chords drawn from the fundamental division of the perfect fourth. These chords are named lubu and ok.
• The lubu tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The ok tetrachord is the 1st, the 4th, the 5th and the 8th degrees of the fundamental perfect fourth division.
• The strog rhythm is a single line with four beats divided into two bars in a 2-2 pattern. The beats are named osmze (spoken os) and ulu (ul). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x x | x - |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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